Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maryland’s Highest Court Rules on Lead Paint Lawsuits
Oct 26 2011 // Maryland’s highest court has ruled that a law giving owners of certain rental properties immunity from personal injury lawsuits based on a child’s ingestion of lead-based paint is invalid. The Court of Appeals...
Pittsburgh Settles Suit Stemming From G20 Summit
Oct 26 2011 // The city of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit filed by two men who said they were wrongly swept up in arrests during the Group of 20 economic summit two years ago. Solicitor Dan Regan said on Monday, Oct. 24, that the...
Movie Star Stallone Sued, Accused of Copyright Infringement Over Screenplay
Oct 26 2011 // Action movie star Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer’s screenplay to make “The Expendables,” a movie about mercenaries hired to defeat a military dictator. The lawsuit...
AIG Fraud Suit Against Bank of America Won’t Be Moved to State Court
Oct 21 2011 // A federal judge rejected American International Group Inc.’s request to move its $10 billion mortgage fraud lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. back to a New York state court, where AIG believed the case...
Two Railroads Face Pollution Lawsuit in California
Oct 19 2011 // When the lump on her toddler’s tummy turned out to be a rare cancer, Carla Hernandez wondered if living just a half-mile from two rail yards emitting a constant veil of near-invisible pollution was somehow...
Accenture, Guidewire Settle Patent Suits
Oct 19 2011 // Accenture and Guidewire Software Inc. have agreed to resolve all outstanding patent litigation between the companies concerning their respective insurance claims management software. San Mateo, Calif.-based Guidewire has...
Vermont Lawsuit Says Ex-Wife of Murder Suspect Negligent
Oct 19 2011 // The father of a slain Braintree, Vermont, girl is accusing the suspect’s ex-wife of playing a role in her death by not protecting her. The Vermont Supreme Court heard an appeal from James Bennett on Tuesday, Oct....
Massachusetts Jury Returns $20M Verdict in Pool Slide Suit
Oct 18 2011 // A Massachusetts jury has ordered Toys `R Us to pay more than $20 million to the family of a woman who was killed when an inflatable pool slide partially collapsed at a 2006 party. The Salem Superior Court verdict, returned...
Mississippi High Court Weighing Limit on Lawsuit Damages
Oct 18 2011 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked attorneys for more information as it considers whether the state’s limitation on damages in civil cases is constitutional. In an order last month, the court asked attorneys for...
Motorists Sue Tennessee City Over Traffic Cameras
Oct 17 2011 // Motorists are suing Bluff City for $6 million over its traffic cameras. Chris Cawood and Jonathan Proffitt claim the city and Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions Inc. are conspiring to violate the federal Fair Debt...
D.C. Metro Sues Insurer Lexington Over Lost Revenue
Oct 17 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Former Idaho Insurance Investigators Sue Department of Insurance, Others
Oct 17 2011 // A lawsuit filed by former Idaho insurance investigators says they were forced out of the Idaho Department of Insurance for turning over information to the feds during an investigation into an eastern Idaho insurance...
Chartis to Trim Workforce; AIG Settlement Approved
Oct 17 2011 // American International Group said its property/casualty carrier Chartis will eliminate some jobs, with the reduction affecting less than 1 percent of its workforce, or roughly 400 or fewer positions. “As part of...
Homeowners Insurance Contributes to Settlement in Wisconsin Polka Suit
Oct 17 2011 // A Chippewa Falls, Wis., polka musician has won a court battle involving his ex-wife and her new husband, who he accuses of stealing one of his most popular tunes. Ray Rubenzer filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit...
Louisiana Woman Sues Facebook Over Cookies
Oct 14 2011 // A Louisiana woman is suing Facebook over allegations that the social networking site collects and stores users’ Internet browsing history without their permission. Former Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub...
Kentucky Mining Company Sued Over Flooding Death, Damage
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer. The suit against Nally...
Widow Sues Tennessee Veterans Hospital Over Husband’s Suicide
Oct 14 2011 // The widow of an Iraq war veteran from Tennessee claims in a lawsuit that the Veterans Affairs was negligent in failing to diagnose and treat his post-traumatic stress disorder before he committed suicide in 2008. The suit...
Transatlantic Says in Talks with Fourth Suitor
Oct 11 2011 // Bermuda-based reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc , which has been at the center of a months-long buyout battle, said it entered talks and signed a confidentiality agreement with a fourth, unnamed, suitor. Transatlantic...
Michigan Court Says Man Can Sue In-Laws Over Fall
Oct 11 2011 // This could make the family Thanksgiving a bit uncomfortable. A Detroit-area man is suing his in-laws after falling through their garage attic while hunting for a Christmas wreath. The Michigan appeals court has reversed a...
AIG’s $725M Settlement with Pension Funds Gains Preliminary Approval
Oct 7 2011 // New York federal court gave a preliminary approval to American International Group’s $725 settlement deal with Ohio public pension funds. It’s another forward step in AIG’s effort to resolve ongoing legal...
